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cooper verb to silence or humiliate someone CANADA- To be coopered is to get tied up in an argument or beaten in a fight or contest and be silenced like a barrel is when it is coopered with all the staves in, the hoops on, and the head “coopered.” — Lewis Poteet (citing a letter from Danny Bower), The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 33, 1999
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